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My Darling Dark Elf$9.99

by ebi-hime

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Velocity

This game has no Velocity yet. The scoring pass only ranks games that clear an audience floor and have enough history to measure acceleration over — everything below that line is collected but not scored, which is most of the catalogue.

Which counter moved first

Lead and lag

30 days

Not enough of the ladder to compare.

Only ratings could be plotted, so there is no second counter to compare the timing against.

Lead and lag for My Darling Dark Elf, 30 daysLead and lag over 30 days, 2026-09-18 to 2026-10-17, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. Not enough of the ladder to compare. Ratings: 11 throughout, no change at all.100%50%0%Sep 18Oct 17Ratings

Each line is scaled to its own change across these 30 days, so counters that differ by orders of magnitude can be compared by shape. The vertical gap is what matters: a line higher on the left took its change earlier. The real counts are in the legend, and the day-by-day numbers are below.

Series — over Sep 18 to Oct 17

  • Ratings — people finished and cared11110
  • Topic views are not recorded for this game, so that rung is unmeasured — not zero.
  • Comments are not recorded for this game, so that rung is unmeasured — not zero.
The numbers behind the chart

The counter as we recorded it that day, and beside it the share of the window’s change it had reached — the value the chart plots.

DayRatings
Sep 1811
Sep 1911
Sep 2011
Sep 2111
Sep 2211
Sep 2311
Sep 2411
Sep 2511
Sep 2612
Sep 2712
Sep 2812
Sep 2912
Oct 113
Oct 214
Oct 314
Oct 414
Oct 514
Oct 614
Oct 714
Oct 814
Oct 914
Oct 1014
Oct 1111
Oct 1211
Oct 1311
Oct 1411
Oct 1511
Oct 1611
Oct 1711
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion11-3+3

A blank change is not a zero: the scoring pass refuses a window whose nearest observation is too stale to compare, rather than differencing two points that are not seven days apart.

Not our number

On itch.io's own charts

Categories

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top sellers · Visual Novel362-347Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Visual Novel chart across 29 readings: slipping, #28 to #362 (best #15, worst #384).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top sellers2,355-1,683-2,287Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 30 readings: slipping, #73 to #2355 (best #53, worst #2414).
Newest7,147-4,873Position on itch.io's Newest chart across 12 readings: slipping, #703 to #7147 (best #166, worst #7147).
New & popular7,157-5,786Position on itch.io's New & popular chart across 18 readings: slipping, #110 to #7157 (best #7, worst #7157).
On 6 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #wholesome210-38-66Position on itch.io's Top rated · #wholesome chart across 35 readings: climbing, #213 to #210 (best #144, worst #215).
Top rated · #lesbian491Position on itch.io's Top rated · #lesbian chart across 2 readings: climbing, #499 to #491 (best #491, worst #499).
Top rated · #slice-of-life722Position on itch.io's Top rated · #slice-of-life chart across 7 readings: slipping, #639 to #722 (best #636, worst #722).
Top rated · #yuri729-3Position on itch.io's Top rated · #yuri chart across 24 readings: slipping, #620 to #729 (best #620, worst #773).
Top rated · #anime1,506Position on itch.io's Top rated · #anime chart across 5 readings: slipping, #1502 to #1506 (best #1502, worst #1506).
Top rated · #female-protagonist2,054Position on itch.io's Top rated · #female-protagonist chart across 2 readings: climbing, #2073 to #2054 (best #2054, worst #2073).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-09-08
Price
paid
Average rating
3.55 / 5

No devlog has been posted since we started watching on 2026-09-08. itch.io publishes only the most recent devlog date, so anything posted before then leaves no trace here.

Go to the source

We hold counters and metadata only. Nothing on the game’s own page — its description, its screenshots, its build — is republished here, and everything worth reading about it is behind those links.